SLAYER, MORBID ANGEL, SUFFOCATION Cover Artists Interviewed

June 15, 2007

Stylus Magazine has published "Visions of the Beast", a feature on artists who do metal album artwork. It includes interviews with and artwork from Orion Landau (Relapse Records),Larry Carroll (SLAYER),Stephen Kasner (SUNN O))), HIMSA),Dan Seagrave (MORBID ANGEL, SUFFOCATION),and John Dyer Baizley (BARONESS, PIG DESTROYER). Some excerpts follow:

On the cover of "Reign in Blood":

Stylus: Do you still have the original?

Carroll: I don't have the original, no.

Stylus: What happened to it?

Carroll: I'm trying to remember (laughs). I might have given it away to someone. I know someone wanted one of the images very, very badly. And I said, "OK, fine." But then the schmuck sold it to someone, which really pissed me off. And then another [cover] I think a record company asshole kept, 'cause I saw it on eBay. Someone called me about a year ago and told me something was being sold on eBay.

On the album cover process:

Stylus: What steps are required for a painting to become an album cover?

Seagrave: It has to be photographed. This is why a lot of people produce art digitally now. It's expensive to create a painting and then take it to a photographer. You've got your digital file or your piece of film, which then has to get scanned. If you just do it on a computer, you don't have to spend any money. So I have it photographed, then bring it back into the computer and make little minor adjustments. Then it goes onto an FTP site or on a disc to the record label, and that's it.

To read the entire feature, visit Stylus Magazine.

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